Example sentences of "[adv] did [verb] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 Where schools patently did need greater assistance , Leslie Ryder reasoned , was in the production of materials , in the planning of course units making use of resources , and in the use and operation of audio-visual and reprographic equipment .
2 by the way if we ever did do that stay with aunty Mary , right , then she came back with us
3 What I ever did to annoy Old Saul , whether it was the heat that made him especially cantankerous , whether Agnes really had kicked him in the head when she arrived , as Mrs Clamp says-none of this do I know .
4 Denzil always did like bright colours .
5 ‘ By the Lord , Jimmie , you always did have rose-edged ambitions , but like sunsets they fade . ’
6 ‘ You always did have strange ideas . ’
7 Though he nearly did wed three times .
8 She probably did remember that incident on the beach .
9 Of course , this a justified objection ; and I am ready to concede that in most historical examples one might like to point out things probably did happen that way round .
10 He really did love this land .
11 The sharpest clash occurred in the village of Bezdna in the eastern province of Kazan " , where a certain Anton Petrov began claiming that the statutes really did grant wholesale freedom .
12 " I 've been proving to Graham I really did have some wine and it smashed . "
13 The ‘ false dawn of courtesy ’ was over and the pupils really did accept each other .
14 The only relatively new thing about it was its romantic and truthful name , which someone in the family had thought up early in the nineteenth century as an improvement on ‘ The Leybourne Arms ’ ; for the Leybourne family had been extinct since the fourteenth century , while salmon regularly did return several miles up-river from this house , and were regularly taken for a mile on either side .
15 So the arrangements were made with the White Star line and unbeknown to Nellie , Liam eventually did get two reservations on the new ship , which was brought down from Liverpool to Southampton , where most of the passengers got on , and then to Cherbourg to pick up some more and finally to Queenstown before crossing the Atlantic to New York .
16 The one redeeming feature was that Groups initially did select good crews , many of them second-tour types .
17 The movie that provoked most debate around rape and its representation before The Accused , was Lamont Johnson 's 1976 film Lipstick , which at least did make some attempt to make connections between the rape and the wider social implications of how society constructs images of women .
18 On the other hand , given the state of confusion in France and the fact that Thorez himself was in Moscow , it was not clear that the communist hierarchy was in a position to control communist maquisards , many of whom undoubtedly did have revolutionary aspirations .
19 Women did not eat as many sausages , pies , or fish and chips than men , yet did have more fruit and recommended reduced fat milk .
20 ‘ We never did finish that weeding , did we ?
21 Admittedly , the ‘ eat shit — a million flies ca n't be wrong ’ argument never did hold much water , but when every single person in the place is singing ‘ Altogether Now ’ or ‘ Love See No Colour ’ , waving their arms and jumping about , with sweat dripping from the walls , you 'd have to be a hell of a snob not to be slightly moved .
22 I never did have any ambitions really — I never did want to do anything .
23 ‘ On my soul , ’ sighed Thomas , injured but patient , ‘ 1 never did see any fellow could find all the devil 's arguments like you .
24 But he never did ask any man for directions ; he walked and he walked .
25 Amoco spent tens of millions of dollars on the project but they never did find any oil in Madagascar .
26 Never did like that group
27 In some cases , autonomous groups certainly did achieve higher levels of shop-floor control , but were not widely popular with management , presumably for that reason .
28 The Vikings certainly did cause extensive damage to property in the short term .
29 However , it must be emphasised that all the women who chose not to register for work actually did want paid employment and took up any employment opportunities which arose ( Callender , 1986a ) .
30 He was my room-mate in the days when your school was used as a sort of summer camp for magicians and he actually did disappear one day and we all thought he must have gone home .
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